Immunity to Strange Tales
By Susan Forest
3.5/5
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A collection of 12 short stories by one of Canada's rising stars of speculative fiction. Forest takes you from death-bed wishes to the eerie regions of madness employing subtle skill and fresh prose. Nine of the stories have appeared in publications such as Asimov's, On Spec, Analog, Tesseracts Ten, Tesseracts Eleven, Tesseracts 14, and AE Science Fiction Review. Three of the stories make their debut in this collection, with an introduction by one of Canada's respected editors and experts, Mark Leslie Lefebvre.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I had to stop reading. The first story is obvious and depressing, the second one is gross and depressing, the third one is poignant and depressing (and I would have liked it if the first two hadn't been such downers), the fourth one I would actually recommend to anyone who enjoys chemistry humour, but by the time I got to the fifth, I just didn't have the stomach to read about incest, no matter how it was framed. Gross.I may skip the rest of this story and pick it up again at the next one, but I don't have enough motivation to do so yet.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Immunity to Strange Tales is a collection of twelve short stories, most of which could be considered Sci-Fi, most of which I enjoyed greatly.Outstanding were the stories Back (about a Time Machine), The Right Chemistry (about Atoms), Tomorrow and Tomorrow (about what one is willing to do to ensure there is a tomorrow), Killing the Cat (about mind control) and Orange (about the end of the world). These stories were thought-provoking and after finishing these I had to pause and reflect about the message / morale contained within.The other stories were also intriguing and thought provoking, but not as memorable as the ones mentioned above.I can wholeheartedly recommend this collection to anyone who enjoys sci-fi and short stories.I received this book as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers Program.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A nice collection of short stories, varied in content and style, all skillfully written. Some I found more academic than anything else; others were truly touching and thought-provoking.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5On the whole, a decent collection of short stories. There were a few that came across more like an exercise in a writing class (The Right Chemistry and The Director's Cut left me cold) and a few standout fantastic ones (Back, Killing the Cat, The Way Back, and Orange) and the other half of the stories were middling quality. Worth the read, just for the four excellent ones.Four awesome, two awful, and six average shorts in an unusual collection of mixed-genre vaguely SF stories.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quite good collection of twelve varied short stories, all from the same author. Written over a period of a few years there is no particular unifying theme, the stories mostly lie in the weird SF part of the SFF genre, with a few outreaches to fantasy and darker realms. Perhaps the most common element is that they are all very short at a few pages in length at most. This just about enables enough of scene setting to take place, before the twist conclusion. Once or twice this was a bit obvious, but otherwise seemed suitably entertaining.A very glowing Forward from someone I've never heard of gives away details from aa few of the storys, somethign that I won't do here. He also insists that there us a particularly canadian flavour of personal spirit and indpedance amoung the stories. This wasn'tr somethig that I notice particularly other than that they are mostly written about a single narrator. What I did enjoy was a higher than usual proportion of science in the science fiction, whether it was at the weid level of personalised moleculs (so seldom that Chemistry gets a starring role) or the more serious issues of biological agents, it worked. Only in one or two stories was the supernatural invoked to provide an 'explanation',Of course not every story was brilliant, a couple just ended without any particualr point being made - always a weakness in short story collections, but there weren't any that I felt were complete duds with no redeeming features - if only for the wideness of the author's imagination. All the settings were weider than you normally find, even in SFF collections, of which I've read quite a few. Enjoyable, and an author worth keeping an eye on. I'll be interested to see if she writes a full adult novel, here YA work has already won awards apparently.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Immunity to Strange Tales is a book of short stories. The individual tales ranged across a number of different genres including horror and science fiction. I really liked several of the stories, especialy the stoy about the time machine. But there were also a couple of stories that I just didn't care for. Overall it was a decent read.